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Maybe if you have the philosophical depth of a goldfish. For the rest of us, Star Trek's "deep" questions were superficial garbage, and more often than not the writers sided with childish idealism and rule-following over a sensible analysis of the consequences of each option. We see this come to its ultimate conclusion in Insurrection, a movie that depends entirely on the premise that it's better to let billions of people suffer and die than to inconvenience a few hundred.

And of course meanwhile the writing quality was exploring new depths of horrible. Just when we thought that the endless "plot device of the week" and open marketing to sexually-frustrated fanboys was bad, the movies gave us new definitions of the word. All of the next generation movies had plot holes so obvious a five year old could find them, to the point where the movie becomes entirely unwatchable if you spend even a few minutes thinking about it.

PS: everything after the original series was incredibly racist, if you actually think about it for more than a few minutes.



Fixed that for you.

Well generally I think: Like the SciFi you like and don't compare it to other stuff.

I loved the 5th element, Aliens, Starship Troopers, V (the original series) ...

One of my all-time favourite games is Jedi Knight II: Outcast.

My favourite SciFi book is The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov.


All are different fictional worlds. Some tend to be more fantasy, some try to be "realistic". As long as I'm entertained, moved, amazed ... I'll take it.

The most important part for all SciFi fans is to know their memes. Wouldn't you agree ?

Not everyone likes short stories.
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Yes they do. They do a lot. Especially in Deep Space 9.

Fix'd

You're forgetting the Riker Lean.

Personally, I recommend people see Empire and Wrath of Khan... further than that they do so at their peril. I enjoyed TNG and its serialized problem-solving, but the first few seasons really pale compared with later stuff, the writing being really sanitary and saccharine in order to please the network execs I guess. Still, B5 and Firefly were much better series for me.

Where does the Christmas Special fit in on this list?

Star Wars is just childish fantasy stuff. Star Trek is much more mature.
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I feel like it should be several ">" farther down on that list, but for the life of me I can't think of anything else worse to add to the list than SW prequels, hmmm. Even Ang Lee Hulk is between Cancer and SW prequel. . .

*puts his flame-proof suit on*

I prefer ST because of Picard. And Kirk, to some extent. But Picard first.

Seriously guys...how can a man (no not a man, a being of awesome AWESOMENESS) be so damn awesome as Picard?
Janeway is a woman, Cisco? WTF is Sisco. Kirk + Picard = Dreamteam, imo.

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We need a reboot. Timetravel **** goes wrong, Picard and Kirk ended both in a time periode. And they kicking asses through the galaxy! Picard is cool and always tries to reason with Kirk, but Kirk is always like "Naw, fk it, im gonna just punch those aliens." "No James, they are new species! We have to speak with them first...aww, whatcham talkin' about, PREPARE PHOTON TORPEDOES."
And sometimes we would see Janeway bringing them tea and snacks and Sisco in the background, just looking totally out of place and dont knowing wtf to do, and Riker makes fun of him. Like "Hey Sisco, what do you think about being a spaceship captain? Ahahahaha i forgot, you ARENT A REAL ONE ahahahah" -

tldr: Picard and Kirk at Tanagra.